This would be the NEXT GOAL of GM Wesley So (our New Project title for the thread) ... To win the Candidates Tournament & become "The Challenger for the World Chess Championship".

One Step at a time ... if he wins the candidates & become the challenger ... then our next project would be as "World Chess Champion" (for Standard/Classical Chess).

Yes, one step at a time. More power to Wesley So...

_________________ - It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. - Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. - Defense wins games. Excellent defense wins championships.

Glad to know that Wesley has made it to the Candidates Tournament by way of rating. In a certain sense, he is now on the road to the world championship. Thanks to Mod Joey for raising the ante by changing the thread title to Project World Chess Championship Challenger.

Nevertheless, let proper preparations for our boy begin. As the saying goes, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

Wishing him the best, and certainly God will do the rest.

_________________Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore

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joeyj wrote:

This would be the NEXT GOAL of GM Wesley So (our New Project title for the thread) ... To win the Candidates Tournament & become "The Challenger for the World Chess Championship".

One Step at a time ... if he wins the candidates & become the challenger ... then our next project would be as "World Chess Champion" (for Standard/Classical Chess).

Bring it on, Wes. We are praying for your success and victory. This will be an ultimate honour for our country and people.

_________________Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.~ Mark Twain

It seemed like the comeback story of Caruana would be the focus of attention of the day, but So had something to say about that. Trailing by 16 points with three games to go yesterday, So was simply a complete monster in the second half of the g/10 and all throughout today. Obtaining huge advantages on the clock and combining it with powerful and precise play, So turned the match around and even won the head-to-head with a full round to spare. Dominguez proved superiority in the rapid, but it was all So in the blitz.

On an interesting note So was so focused on banging the clock and putting that pressure on his opponent, that Carlsen requested that this match be played as far away from his board as possible, since it was distracting! So at some pointed even started bleeding from hitting the clock so hard, which forced the arbiters to pause the game and wipe the clock.

_________________"There is a difference between INTEREST and COMMITMENT. When you're interested to do something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to do something, you accept no excuses, only results."

_________________ - It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. - Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. - Defense wins games. Excellent defense wins championships.

Gm Joey Antonio (50+ age bracket) and GM Eugene Torre (65+ age bracket) doing well at the ongoing 27th World Senior Chess Championship 2017 in Italy currently tied for 3rd and first respectively after 7 rounds of 11.

Champion Magnus Is so good I don't see anybody beatiing him in the next 4-5 years. Here are the chances of some of the top GMs:Aronian- small chanceNakamura- miniscule chanceLiren- no chanceCaruana- no chanceSo- no chanceKramnik- no chanceKarjakin- no chance

Champion Magnus Is so good I don't see anybody beatiing him in the next 4-5 years. Here are the chances of some of the top GMs:Aronian- small chanceNakamura- miniscule chanceLiren- no chanceCaruana- no chanceSo- no chanceKramnik- no chanceKarjakin- no chance

Champion Magnus Is so good I don't see anybody beatiing him in the next 4-5 years. Here are the chances of some of the top GMs:Aronian- small chanceNakamura- miniscule chanceLiren- no chanceCaruana- no chanceSo- no chanceKramnik- no chanceKarjakin- no chance

You may be right in your conjectures, but according to the 50-50-90 rule:

Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90 percent probability you’ll get it wrong.

_________________Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence. -- Rabindranath Tagore

Congrats GM Joey for finishing 2nd in the 27th World Seniors 50+ Chess tournament held in Italy.. and for GM Torre in joint 2nd place in the under 65+ age group of the same tourney (after tiebreaks though Torre is officially 7th place).

_________________“I am not foolish enough to think I can do this by myself” -- Wesley So

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